Evaluating health care costs

Evaluating Health Care Externality Costs Generated by Risky Consumption Goods

We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) macroeconomic model that applies a behavioral interpretation of preferences for goods that generate health risks. In this paper proneness to poor health is viewed as a cognitive miscalculation by economic agents between their expected health state over various consumption bundles and the actual health care they require for their health outcome. To mod...

Rising health care costs.

Tracking health care costs.

This paper provides an update on trends in health care costs since 1999. Although the growth rate in overall costs has been stable since 1999, the trend in costs for hospital services rose, while that for prescription drugs declined, although it remains extremely high. Increased growth in hospital costs reflects the retreat from tightly managed care and labor shortages. The discrepancy between ...

Managed Health Care Effects: Medical Care Costs

MANAGED HEALTH CARE EFFECTS: MEDICAL CARE COSTS AND ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE

What's driving health care costs?

This Issue Brief was prepared for The Commonwealth Fund/John F. Kennedy School of Government Bipartisan Congressional Health Policy Conference, January 15-17, 2004.